Quotes from Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice!

Here in America we are descended in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine.

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.

The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

War settles nothing.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.